Gillmor Gang: Pattern Baldness

The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include Twitter Dead media bait, FourSquare’s move toward the new cross-app model championed by Facebook, the Google+ backslide, and Microsoft in the free lane.

No matter how much the market wants to quantify the Twitter opportunity, the rest of the world is more concerned about how to process the stream. Notifications are reaching a first stage crescendo where the quality of your social cloud can be measured in the time you wait to click, and the relative weight of those who matter.